Chain-mail isn't much defence against an arrow. It certainly isn't when the arrow is being aimed between your eyes.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government.

And our lady friend, she thinks life works like a fairy tale.' Well, that’s harmless, isn’t it?' Yeah, but in fairy tales, when someone dies... it’s just a word.

This is Morbidia," said Vlad. "Although she's been calling herself Tracy lately, to be cool.

There were two ways of looking at the world, but only one when you are starving.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

And at the other end of the bar the world is full of the other type of person, who has a broken glass, or a glass that has been carelessly knocked over (usually by one of the people calling for a larger glass) or who had no glass at all, because he was at the back of the crowd and had failed to catch the barman's eye.